The Unintended Consequences of Adopting AI and Call Center Automation and How to Avoid Them
Forbes reports 67% of consumers now initially prefer self-service over speaking to an agent. To adapt to changing preferences while meeting increased cost pressures, 91% of businesses have or are planning to offer self-service options, including AI.
However, for many the rapid adoption of automation and self-service tools have brought with it a list of unintended consequences, which include greater customer friction, security concerns, data management issues, increased support costs, increased call complexity, and ultimately, decreased customer satisfaction scores.
To analyze this issue, ACT (Advanced Call Center Technologies) has written a research paper titled, Unintended Consequences of Call Center Automation and How to Avoid Them. In it, we delve into the root causes of these unintended consequences, we evaluate the long view of the multimodal approach currently being used by many call centers and BPOs to address the problem and present a solution that is currently generating a 98% green scorecard among call centers using it.
You can access the white paper here >
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